A transition, not a failed state

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When the Foreign & Commonwealth Office urged all Britons to leave Benghazi
immediately owing to a “specific and imminent threat to Westerners”, I was
confident they weren’t over-reacting.

I say this as a Westerner who received a specific and imminent threat from
Benghazi that has landed me not just out of that city, but out of Libya
altogether.

I moved to Libya full-time last May to help set up a new English-language
newspaper, the Libya Herald. Having covered the news there at a local
level for some time, and had more than a few near misses, I can nevertheless
state